[1] Kazakhstan's relations with the West have greatly improved for the last few years as the Government has closely cooperated in the U.S.-led War on Terror.

[3] On April 24, 2024, the two countries signed a Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, during the visit of British Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, to Astana.

The most attractive industry in Kazakhstan for UK investors is professional, scientific and technical activities; the share of which is 34.3 percent of the total, or $7.8 billion.

[2] The United Kingdom occupies leading positions in the global rankings of developing digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

[10] Kazakhstan cooperates with the UK in order to adopt and implement Britain's best practices in the digital field.

According to one senior official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this model envisions having police precincts within walking distance of local communities and beat cops as authoritative and resourceful managers mobilising communities in solving their local problems.

It tries to emulate community safety partnerships, which had been implemented in the UK in the late 1990s under Tony Blair who had been Nazarbayev’s consultant in the 2010s.

[15] President Nazarbayev, along with several Kazakh business leaders, met with Evans, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth II, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Lord Mayor John Stuttard and Jean Lemierre, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in London, England on 21 and 22 November 2006.

[16][17] Political analysts said Nazarbayev used the visit as an opportunity to try to convince British government officials that Kazakhstan is making progress in its democratization in order to gain Britain's support for its bid to head the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in 2009.

And secondly, you have many different ethnic and religious groupings and they are living together and Kazakhstan is making progress as a whole, as a country, and that's an important lesson as well.

Other representatives who spoke at the seminar worked for Kazyna Fund, Samruk State Holdings, RFCA, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

[16] Prime Minister Blair raised the issue of the treatment of Hindus in Kazakhstan when he met with Nazarbayev as riot police and bulldozers demolished a Hindu temple and five houses of Kazakh Hindus in Karasai District, Kazakhstan.

[21] Forum 18, a nonprofit organization that advocates for religious freedom, documented alleged government harassment of Hindus.